I'm South African (don't speak seTswana, mind. In fact I am white, but I work in Pretoria, where seTswana is widely spoken), and I'm fairly certain that isn't how most South Africans pronounce 'Dikgacoi'.
A radio drama in the local language, Setswana, spreads information about the affliction.
("Thebe" is Setswana for "shield"; the middle name is an homage to the Chilean poet).
The languages she speaks fluently — English and Setswana — are rarely heard here.
The central lion in the movie, called Ma di Tau ("mother of lions" in Setswana, a language of Botswana), certainly has an arresting, hard-luck story.
In a fusion of Setswana and English, Montsho discusses things like her training routine, Botswana literature, drug testing and religion.
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The Setswana word for chief is kgosi, and that is the name he is called by the two older village women who have come out here with him to share their knowledge of the local botany.
Translators speak eloquently about the exquisite torture of rendering Elizabethan puns and blank verse in Polish and German, isiXhosa and Setswana.
"AWAKENING on Friday morning, June 20th , 1913" wrote Sol Plaatje, a black, Setswana-speaking intellectual and activist, "the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth".
"You are going to try to use your surroundings to influence your music, your thoughts and your songwriting, but [Setswana culture] is not something we focus on," he said.
